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What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's Making the Cut, The Twilight Saga and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
Designer Andrea Pitter is competing on season two of <em>Making the Cut.</em>

The second week of the Olympics had us watching horses and swimmers and runners, and we wouldn't trade them for anything. But as we head into the final weekend of all that, we've got plenty of other entertainment on tap for the first weekend of August.

What to watch

Making The Cut, Amazon Prime

This is without the stuff you fast forward through. This is much more a show about design than simply assembly. The designers,

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